Welcome to my blog. I don't know exactly what I'll be using this forum for or what direction it will take me in. For now I plan to keep things organic and let it unfold as a place to express my opinions and basically rant and vent. Stay tuned . . .
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
RAY LEWIS, FOOTBALL, MURDER AND GOD
After The Baltimore Ravens won the Super bowl on February
3, 2013 Ray Lewis was quoted as saying,
“It’s simple, when god is for you who can be against
you?”
In a pre-super bowl interview Ray Lewis was asked if he had
anything to say to the families of the two murder victims from Atlanta in 2000 that he was accused of being
involved in. His response was as
follows,
“It’s simple, God has never made a mistake. That’s just who
he is, you see. And if our system – it’s the sad thing about our system – if
our system took the time to really investigate what happened 13 years ago,
maybe they would have got to the bottom line truth. But the saddest thing ever
was that a man looked me in my face and told me, ‘We know you didn’t do this,
but you’re going down for it anyway.’ To the family, if you knew, if you really
knew the way God works, he don’t use people who commits anything like that for
His glory. No way. It’s the total opposite."
Overall the American culture has evolved over the last 25
years to a point of not only giving thugs and gangsters respect but even
sometimes rewarding them. Much of the
dress code and dialect of our youth comes directly out of prison culture and somewhere
along the way it has become part of the American culture to give respect to
unintelligence and criminality. It seems
to me that a whole generation or two has completely lost their way and lost
sight of proper goals and what should be important in life. I won’t even begin to go into all that as
it’s a much bigger subject and a much larger sociological problem, but I will
say that Ray Lewis was as much a part of all that as anyone. He might not have pulled the trigger that
killed those two men, (no one knows really,) but he was enjoying the gangsta
lifestyle. He was a success story from,
“da hood,” and at the very least he was hanging around with thugs who carry
guns to nightclubs and pull them out and start shooting other people at the first perceived notion that they are
somehow being disrespected. And I’m sure
that with all the money he was throwing around he was getting plenty of attention
and respect from those hoodlums and he was loving it. But he was young and I really can’t even
fault him for that. We all mature and
become better men and women over time. He
is obviously a different man than he was back then.
But what I can fault him on is how nonchalantly he throws
his deity into everyone’s face. Take notice
of how he begins both of the aforementioned quotes with the words, “it’s
simple,” as if any of this really is. I
think the only thing that is simple here is Ray Lewis’s mind. Ray Lewis is obviously simple-minded. I can understand that what he
was trying to say in regard to the murders is that he was found innocent
because his god doesn’t make mistakes.
That in and of itself is a totally ridiculous statement that I’m sure a
lot of incarcerated people would disagree with but doesn’t Mr. Lewis realize
what a slap in the face that statement was to the families of the two murder
victims? Doesn’t he realize that by
saying what he said he’s also saying that his god decided it was right for
those two guys to die? It just seems to
me that Mr. Lewis is so intent on putting his god views into everything he says
that he has completely removed the significance of his god. His god cares more about football games than
he does about little girls being raped and murdered in the Middle
East for the simple crime of wanting to become educated? His god cares more about overpaid athletes
that live a luxurious, lavish lifestyle than he cares about people going hungry
in the drought areas of Africa? His god cares more about a football game than
he cares about the earthquake victims in Haiti? And not all football games mind you, not all football
teams and not all football players but only the particular football team that
Ray Lewis happens to play on. In Ray
Lewis's simple-minded view his god cares more about Ray Lewis and The Baltimore
Ravens than he cares about any other football player, football team and of
course anything else that might be happening in the world. All I can say is GIVE ME A BREAK!! I don’t begrudge anyone the right to believe
in a higher power or to seek spiritual guidance but when you reduce the power
that the deity of your beliefs wields to such a ridiculously low level you remove
all credibility for the possible existence of your deity in my eyes. When you tell the world that your deity cares
more about you and whatever is going on in your life than it does about anyone
or anything else, you are simply proving to me that you are delusional. Your god exists in your mind and your mind
only!
As a Ravens fan I am happy that my team won the Super Bowl but
I’m intelligent and rational enough to know that it had nothing to do with the
power of a god. I, for one, am glad that
the career of Ray Lewis is over because I don’t think I could sit through much
more of his holier-than-thou, pious ranting.
I wish him no ill will and I actually hope that his beliefs bring him
peace and contentment in his retirement.
But I am very happy that I will never again have to endure his
delusionary ramblings.
Way to go ravens!!
Great team effort!! All
human!! No god involved!!
Saturday, February 2, 2013
OH JEALOUSY
When a person with limited cognitive ability is jealous over
the success, accomplishments and achievements of someone else, that jealousy
can easily manifest itself in the form of anger and aggression.
SO MANY OF THESE OUT THERE
There is nothing more sad than people who choose to remain ignorant and uninformed even after being presented with the facts!!
Saturday, January 12, 2013
NO MORE DRIXORAL
I just discovered that we can no longer buy Drixoral. In fact they took it off the market in 2008. I didn't notice because I had bought a large stockpile of it and didn't need any. What a total bunch of bullshit!!! It's all because it has pseudoephedrine in it but that's also why it worked!! Who cares if a few people were making bathtub meth with it!! Why should I no longer be allowed to purchase a legal, over the counter cold remedy because a few people have figured out a way to get high from it. The rules this government has in regard to drugs absolutely suck!!!! WTF is wrong with the mind-set of this country? Who cares if some people are getting high as long as the majority of the people are using a drug to fight symptoms and illness. For that matter who cares if people are getting high?? Period!!! People have always gotten high and they always will. Little kids spin around until they are so dizzy they cannot stand up. That's getting high!!! It starts there!!! Should we outlaw spinning???!!! All of the crime related to drug use stems from the fact that they are illegal not from the use itself. The crime comes from the selling and obtaining of them. And now because of this paranoid, Ronald Reagan era, simpleton MADD type frame of mind we are no longer allowed to purchase a drug that actually works?? We are not allowed to take advantage of the benefits of our own science and technology?? Oh but I can go out and buy an assault rifle at a gun show with no background check and I can buy high capacity magazines and ammo online with no problems. OK right! god bless america. Land of the violent and the not so free.
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